Month: May 2014
Essex Shipbuilding Digital Photography Workshop
On Saturday, May 17, 2014, took a class at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum for a great photography class. I would like to thank Barry O’Brien, Len Burgess, Tony Schettino and Dave Delorey for a wonderful lesson.
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While I Like to Keep My Husband on a Short Leash…..
While I like to keep my husband on a short leash….I’ve never put one of my children on a leash. First of all, I’m kidding, I don’t keep my husband on a short leash. He may disagree with that statement however… so maybe I should change it to “I don’t mean to keep my husband on a short leash”. At any rate, that isn’t the point here. The point is that I’ve never put my kids on a leash. So, I am wondering who has? Or who thinks it is okay? Or who thinks it is abominable? Or who sees pros and cons?
Today I saw, what I am guessing to have been, a mother and a grandmother walking (literally) a toddler down the sidewalk…on a leash. I am not trying to cast judgement. I do not claim to be a perfect parent. For example….. there was the time that I let Thatcher lay in bed with my husband and forgot to transfer him to his own bed. I went into the bedroom later to find my husband sound asleep and 2 year-old Thatcher WIDE EYED with the sheets pulled up to his nose watching, none other than, the Gladiator on the TV. Excellently appropriate movie for a toddler. And then there was the time that my husband bought air freshener that looked alarmingly like the can of Pan Nonstick Spray and I used it to make the boys some grilled cheese sandwiches. I didn’t even realize that I had done so until my husband asked, “Why is the air freshener in the Lazy Susan?” a couple of days later. And, just today, as I was trying desperately to choose one hanging plant and a few perennials….and all the boys wanted to do was play bumper cars with the garden carts….and Wolf Hill was closing in 5 minutes…I absolutely said some words of encouragement for better behavior that I am now, in hindsight, not proud of. Nor, for the record, were they effective.
Soooooo, I digress. I am by no means perfect, but the kid on a leash thing is something that I haven’t quite wrapped my head around. I’d be lying if I said it didn’t feel (or look I guess) more than a bit wrong to me. I am all about Safety First…I really am. So, if you have a runner and you really think that your child is going to dart into traffic with no advanced warning….then maybe a leash is the way to go? Likewise, if you are in an incredibly busy place…like, say, Disney World or the Running of the Bulls in Pamploma (in which case, I suppose, whether or not to use a leash would probably not be the parental decision that would be in question), I guess I can see the merit. We, as parents, have always opted for strollers or simple hand-holding. That having been said, we did once suffer through a horrifically long 2 or 3 minutes of not being able to find Finn at the New England Aquarium. While I guess, if I had to pick sides, I would call myself anti-leash, a leash would have prevented that from happening. So, I ask you honestly, what are your thoughts?
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Upcoming Chamber Events!
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From System Failure to Pizza Success
I mixed a simple pizza sauce and let it age in the ‘fridge overnight. The next day I shaped the pizza dough with the guidance of staff member Kayla, who also throws pizzas for Sebastian’s Pizza. After topping the sauced pizza with mozzarella cheese, onions, mushrooms, and linguica, it went into a hot oven on a hot stone. It tasted great, so I guess I’ll survive when I’m released.
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Community Photos 5/19/14
Picture Perfect – Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, Sunday Afternoon
Nat Johnson submits-
Heading Out For A Sail. photo from Anthony Marks
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Fish ID
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Monday May 19th , 2014 Cape Ann Weather…
Marine Forecast :
Mon NW winds 10 to 15 kt. Gusts up to 20 kt in the morning. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
Mon Night NW winds around 10 kt. Seas 2 to 4 ft.
Video Forecast :
Hourly Forecast …
Look Ahead :
Lizzie Borden Event! Sponsored By MGHparanormalsociety.com It’s Going to Be Epic!! And I’ll be there !!! Only 4 Tickets Left!!!
You’re weatherman enjoyed the Sox game even though they lost .. Here’s a few pics from Sunday Nights Game
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Community Stuff 5/19/14
Hello,
I am the president of the Interact Club at Gloucester High school, and we held the Pizza Taste Off in April. We recently awarded the prizes to the winners, and took a picture of the overall winner, and are hoping that we would be able to get the picture and a short write up on Good Morning Gloucester! Here is the article I wrote and attached is the picture! Feel free to edit whatever and let me know if you have any questions or need anything else!
Raising nearly $2,000 for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, the Gloucester High School’s Interact Club hosted a successful 7th annual Pizza Taste-Off at the Cruiseport on Wednesday, April 2nd. Standing by the motto “Service Above Self”, Gloucester High School Interact Club members and advisors put in a lot of time and work to make this event happen. With donations from thirteen different pizza places on Cape Ann, voting for Best Overall, Best Crust, and Best Sauce were all tough decisions. The winner of the Best Overall category was Surfside Subs (978-281-1700, 147 Thatcher Rd, Gloucester MA). Humbled by the win, Carl Barbara of Surfside Subs told us, “The pizza is new, we just introduced it last year. It’s a recipe I’ve been thinking about since last year. So me and my manager Frank (Carini) whipped it up and people have loved it. This year we entered the contest and we’re humbled to win.” Close behind Surfside Subs was Captain Hook’s, and then the Magnolia House of Pizza. The title of Best Crust goes to Cape Ann Pizza, followed by Essex’s new Pearly Bakers. Best Sauce, for another consecutive year, is awarded to Sebastian’s Pizza. This event was a success, and the Interact Club would like to thank all of the supporters who came to the event, the volunteers, the pizza places who donated, the Cruiseport, and would like to congratulate all of winners, as the voting was very close!
Thanks,
Kelly Foster
Co-President of Interact Club
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Poll- Since the Gloucester Daily Times Went Paywall- How Has It Influenced Your Viewership?
Thank You to Everyone Who Participated in This Year’s Cape Ann Milkweed Project!!!
Monarch Butterflies Nectaring at Pink New Enlgand Aster, Gloucester
Thank you so much to our most awesome community for participating in the Cape Ann Monarch Milkweed and Aster Project. Today was a huge and wonderful success and we were non-stop with folks dropping in to pick up their seeds and learn more about how they can help the Monarchs. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
And my most heartfelt thanks to Joey. He nudged me into doing the sale again this year by inquiring just about a month ago if we were planning a repeat of last year’s plant sale. Joey’s hospitality and interest in everyone who stops by makes Captain Joe’s a wonderfully fun place to have a community event!
Note to anyone who could not pick up their seeds or who was planning to have them sent via a self-addressed stamped envelope: You will recieve an email with information on where to send the check and order amount total. Thanks again to everyone!
Fun fact about butterflies: Butterflies do not grow fur. The fur-like structures that you see on butterflies are many single cells conjoined to form one long string.
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In case you misplace the instructions on how to prepare your milkweed seeds for spring planting ~
How to Vernalize Milkweed Seeds for Spring Planting
Seeds of most temperate plants need to be vernalized—in other words, exposed to cold temperatures. The best way to vernalize is by stratification, which means subjecting seeds to a cold and moist environment for a short period of time. By stratifying, the seed’s natural break of dormancy that occurs when the seed spends the winter in the ground is simulated.
#1 Method of Stratifying Milkweed
Open the bag of seeds and place them between very slightly moistened paper towels in a plastic bag in the refrigerator. After vernalizing for 3-6 weeks, the seeds can be planted out in the garden in warm 70º soil.
#2 Method of Stratifying Milkweed
Place ¼ cup of sand mixed with ¼ tsp. of water in a plastic bag. Add the seeds and mix again. Store in plastic bag in the refrigerator. After vernalizing for 3-6 weeks, the seeds can be planted out in the garden in warm 70º soil.
Prepare the planting bed in a sunny location. Scatter seeds, or plant in rows, and cover with no more than ¼ inch of soil.
For natural vernalization, sow collected seeds directly into a prepared bed in the fall and the seed will germinate the following spring.
Monarch Butterfly Caterpillars Munching on Milkweed
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The First Dandelion
The First Dandelion.
Simple and fresh and fair from winter’s close
emerging,
As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics,
had ever been,
Forth from its sunny nook of shelter’d grass—
innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
The spring’s first dandelion shows its trustful
face.
WALT WHITMAN.
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Reflections of Spring
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Seacoast Nursing Home Opening Reception
These are some shots taken by Charlie Carroll at the Seacoast Nursing Home reception yesterday. This is a wonderful exhibit of 30 canvas giclee photos of local scenes donated by a number of Cape Ann photographers, and printed by Cape Ann Giclee, to be hung permanently in the Alzheimer’s Wing at Seacoast Nursing Home. Many of the residents and visitors came to the opening and really enjoyed the work.
For me, the highlight of the event was meeting Agnus MacQuade, 99 years young, who will turn 100 in January 2015. She was amazingly sharp and a pleasure to talk to. She was a student teacher at Lane School for a number of years and then taught at Salem State. She said she loves being at Seacoast Nursing Home.
E.J. Lefavour
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Community Photos 5/18/14
Hi Joey,
It’s nice to see TRIAD back on the mooring for another season!
Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
Big Bouy, Big Pot. photo from Anthony Marks
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Bonsai!!!
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CALVO WOOD CARVING SCHOOL SCHEDULE
joey,
can we post this picture with the blurb on my carving school. i am also looking to relocate and looking for 1000 square feet area with good natural light if anyone has any leads.
warm regards,
David
CALVO WOOD CARVING SCHOOL SCHEDULE
Hi All,
This year’s wood carving school schedule is being posted if anyone is interested in taking any classes. The class descriptions are on the website.
Five-Day Bare Bones of Wood Carving Classes
June 9-13, 2014
July 14-18, 2014
Sept 17-21, 2014
Oct 15-19, 2014
Two and Three Day Woodcarving Workshops
July 12-13, 2014
Sept 5-7, 2014
Nov 14-16, 2014
I am also running weekly woodcarving classes on Tuesday nights and some Sunday mornings.
I am also looking to relocate my studio. I am looking for approximately 1000 square feet with good natural light. If anyone have any leads in Gloucester I would appreciate it.
Feel free to contact me for more information.
David Calvo
978-283-0231
Calvo Studio
235 East Main St.
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Making Vino The Old Fashion Way!
Yesterday Gloucester residents, Neil and Bridgette Mathews, hosted their 4th Annual Wine Stomping Extravaganza! Family and friends gathered at their home here in Gloucester, for an afternoon of Old Fashion Fun. It was a day of…Family, Friendship, food , and of course lots of homemade “Vino.” Neil, “Head Winer” of yesterday’s festivities, led an assemble line of helpers through the first stages of wine making, while his wife Bridgett and their three beautiful daughters, Lindsey, Abbey, and Melodey, fixed an Italian style buffet lunch, which included several bottles of wine produced by the family last year. Neil and Bridgett are committed to producing wine “The Old Fashion way,” each step of the process is a labor of love done by hand. All 540 lbs. of imported Chilean Carmenere Grapes were carefully inspected, for mold and leaves, before the labor intensive work of plucking thousands of juicy plump grapes from their stems began. Dozens of sorted grapes were mounded in large trays, and transferred to a giant plastic stomping tub in the Mathews garage.
Thank you so much for your gracious invitation, and warm hospitality. We were honored to be apart of your family tradition and are truly grateful for allowing us access to your behind the scene’s Vino Making! It was a fantastic day! Grazie!
Get ready folks… GMG’s Craig Kimberley Master Videographer is working his magic with yesterday’s behind the scene’s footage of Vino Making, The Old Fashion Way …Stay tuned!
Thank you Craig for all your hard work yesterday, and for always keeping things running smoothly on location and real on the set! I’m truly blessed to be working with you!…and to Miss Hannah, Thank you for sharing your hubby on a beautiful Spring Saturday<3
Click continue to see more photos from yesterday’s Vino Making at the Mathews Home! Continue reading “Making Vino The Old Fashion Way!”
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USS Indiana, First Battleship in Our Navy
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The NEWS From Rocky Neck
Dear Members of the Rocky Neck Art Colony,
Five pieces of important news:
1. Artist Member of the Board: The survey results are in by a quorum of the Art Colony members, and Ruth Mordecai is officially an Artist Member of the Rocky Neck Art Colony Board of Trustees, to finish out Gordon Goetemann’s term until November 2014. We will have an election at that time for the two Artist members of the Board, as Kathy Archer’s two-year term will also expire (or be renewed). Congratulations Ruth, and welcome to the Board of Trustees!
2. Mortgage Burning: As we have succeeded in raising all the funds necessary to pay off the Cultural Center building, the mortgage burning will commence in true Rocky Neck fashion at a party next Friday, May 23, from 7-10 at the Center. Music, food, spirits – a bit of a ceremony at8PM – all members are invited — you made it happen, don’t miss it!!
3. Cape Ann Cultural Districts Mobile Phone app has launched! You can now download the Cape Ann Cultural District mobile phone app from your Apple or Android App Store. This is an excellent marketing and way-finding device developed in partnership with the four Cape Ann Cultural Districts and with funding from the City of Gloucester and Massachusetts Cultural Council. We will be featured in the Globe & other outlets this week. Check out the press release below and download the free app from the App Store!
4. Personnel: Our first part-time aid staffer, the new RNAC/Cultural Center coordinator is Suzanne Gilbert Lee. Please welcome her when you see her around the Neck. And the fabulous, multi-talented, spreadsheet-loving Pat Conant is now our part-time paid bookkeeper, yay!
5. Openings! The Cultural Center Gallery’s Pixel Revolution, curated by Otto Laske, opens this Saturday, May 18, 3-6PM. The Rocky Neck Gallery with featured artist Ken Beck is opening on May 24, 6-8PM. And the Center renovations are cranking along – we should have bathrooms by June 1…fingers crossed!
Yours,
Karen
For Immediate Release
May 15th, 2014
Four Cape Ann Cultural Districts Launch Mobile Application
App Helps Visitors, Residents Pinpoint Destinations within Essex, Gloucester and Rockport
Cape Ann, MA – The four Cape Ann Cultural Districts, seARTS and the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce today announced the launch of a mobile application that will enable Cape Ann visitors and residents to use their mobile devices to explore the area’s four cultural districts.
The new “Cape Ann Cultural Districts” mobile app is now available in the Apple and Android apps stores and can be downloaded free on these sites. The QR code for mobile app is at the bottom of the page for scanning.
The project seeks to increase awareness of Cape Ann’s creative communities, individual artists, museums, recreational attractions, historic sites, restaurants, lodgings and businesses. The mobile app provides a free, consolidated, flexible platform to access information and way-finding for each of the four state-designated Cape Ann cultural districts – Essex River, Gloucester’s Harbor town, Gloucester’s Rocky Neck and Rockport.
Each cultural district has its own page and directory listing of cultural offerings and businesses that will include a description, location, phone number, directions and links to web sites and other associated social media sites.
With the help of the project partners the mobile app is expected to open up new opportunities for tourists and residents to discover and experience the beauty and vibrant cultural scene across Cape Ann.
The mobile app project is funded in part through an Adams Art Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Matching funds were provided by the City of Gloucester, the Essex Merchants Group, the Town of Rockport Economic Development Committee and the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (seARTS). Additional support was provided by the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce and the Rocky Neck Art Colony. The application was created in cooperation with TapWalk, a Boston-based mobile app developer.
Good Morning Gloucester 